Cancer/Oncology

Programs and Labs

Researchers

Work in the area of pain and analgesia focusing on inflammatory psin and cancer pain. Examining mechanisms of chronic pain and mechanisms of acupuncture's effects on pain, inflammattion and cancer growth.

The Dickerson laboratory focuses on mechanisms of drug resistance, identifying drug targets, and new therapeutic approaches. In addition, we are focusing on how metabolic changes affect these processes.

I am currently running 3 clinical trials in dogs with brain tumors looking at novel therapies that may translate to human medicine. I also am developing a new model of a chronic critical size defect in goat tibias also to be used the large animal model used to test and compare novel bone regenerative therapies for translation into human orthopedic disease. I am also using a swine model to test treatment of traumatic brain injury and a sheep model of osteoporosis to examine the effects of PTH.

Davis Seelig

Our laboratory studies the pathogenic mechanisms in the deer-origin prion disease, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), including: 1) mechanisms of neuronal pathology, 2) pathways of prion intestinal invasion, and 3) elucidation of the linkage between the accumulation of misfolded prion protein and the clinical symptoms of CWD. Additionally, our laboratory is seeking to refine the diagnosis and characterization of lymphoproliferative disease in the dog.

I perform clinical research focused on developing and optimizing diagnostic testing in companion animal species, primarily dogs and cats. My clinical research focuses on complications of chemo and radiation therapy in laboratory animal models, predominantly effects on heart, blood, and bone. Recently, I am collaborating on some human studies that branch off from the laboratory animal.